Pulitzer Prize Awards

"The Exorcist" (director's cut) will be at the Naro Expanded Cinema in Norfolk for a special screening at 9:15 p.m. Friday. Here is a piece I wrote about "The Exorcist" as part of a collection of movie essays: “The Exorcist” (1973) is the story of a young girl who is possessed by a demon and the lengths to which her mother and two Catholic priests will go to save her. That’s the basic plot synopsis of William Friedkin’s film and William Peter Blatty’s novel. But they are about a lot more than that. I have always thought “The Exorcist,” at its most basic roots, is the story of Father Damian Karras...

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